http://redstatefeminists.org Red State Feminists en-us Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:39:31 -0800 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#utah What's more important to the state legislators in Utah: mandating businesses provide gun lockers for their employees who want to bring loaded weapons to work, or mandating businesses allow their employees who are nursing mothers to use their unpaid break time to express milk? Is this supposed to be a tough question? Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:39:31 -0800 RSSPECT-001035588 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#iraniraq Red State Feminists are interested in the differing trajectories of women in Iraq and Iran. The women in Iraq appear to be inching forward; the women of Iran are being pushed back by a regime trying to curry favor with a disenchanted public. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:29:02 -0800 RSSPECT-001034068 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#talibantalks We are basically paying the Taliban to let us leave--and paying them to take the place back. Afghanistan will revert to status quo ante circa September 10, 2001. It would be easy to just snicker and snark and turn our heads. But then there's the issue of the WOMEN. Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:24:24 -0800 RSSPECT-001028286 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#fractional As one writer put it, "we used to have Mexican divorces, now we'll have Mexican gestations." In a world deeply infected by male bias, we will now have a world run in the image of men. And even motherhood will be in the image of uncommitted ejaculation. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:29:45 -0800 RSSPECT-001022083 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#bathroom Red State Feminists have noted in an earlier blogpost that the issue of health care reform has revealed a split in the Republican Party along gender lines. While we had our issues with particulars of health care reform, the overall goal is certainly feminist. The health care industry systematically discriminates against women, and it is women who are the caregivers for the young, the elderly, and the infirm. When you don't care about the health of the caregivers and the lifegivers, you just don't care about the health of Americans. So imagine our delight when we came across this little video, less than a minute long . . . Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:40:01 -0800 RSSPECT-001020699 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#dockers It would be lovely to start the year out with good news, but alas, the first thing on our agenda this year is a really off-base ad by Dockers, a brand of pants for men and boys. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:26 -0800 RSSPECT-001017954 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#meniran "We Iranian men are late doing this," Dabashi said. "If we did this when rusari was forced on those among our sisters who did not wish to wear it 30 years ago, we would have perhaps not been here today." This is an incredible breakthrough: I daresay that NO OTHER revolutionary movement has seen this linkage. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:36:38 -0800 RSSPECT-001003947 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#halfmillion Over a half million years ago, some humans cared for a severely disabled child. Yes, they can rightfully be called human. But can modern man still be considered human? That is a different question, perhaps with a different answer. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:47:56 -0800 RSSPECT-001000206 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#nobel Red State Feminists were thrilled to see a mom of a 10 year old and a 13 year old win the Nobel Prize for Medicine (along with two others). What a remarkable achievement, and how wonderful that these children had a mother who not only does their laundry at 5 AM and makes them school lunches, but also was able to perform pathbreaking research on telomerase! Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:17:42 -0800 RSSPECT-00997663 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#technorati DW7DPUXBEFTU Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:24 -0800 RSSPECT-00991596 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#spock The sensibility of our generation was that the cool, calm, logical Spock (Obama) would be a much preferable commander-in-chief than the hot-headed, self-absorbed Kirk. Well, yes, most of us did want to see how things would be different with a Spock instead of a Kirk. So it is very sad to see the Obama Administration tracking the script of the original Star Trek series, which explored in several episodes why Spock was not as great a commander as Kirk. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:49:38 -0800 RSSPECT-00991586 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#snowe Red State Feminists do not believe that is is coincidence that both of these senators are women. Women have experienced first hand how insurance companies treat them like second-class citizens, charging them higher rates just for being female, and treating things like having ever given birth to a child as a risk factor, or treating domestic abuse as a pre-existing condition for which a woman can be denied coverage. We are also the ones left to pick up the pieces, without support from our society, if a loved one is denied insurance coverage. That these things should exist in the land of the free and the home of the brave is simply unconscionable. Snowe and Collins realize that conservatism is retrogressive if it forgets the women who built this great country. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:51:04 -0800 RSSPECT-00990810 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#munley Thank the heavens we live in a society where Kim could be where she was when the soldiers of Fort Hood needed her. And society has been repaid in full by Police Sergeant Kim Munley. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:55:00 -0800 RSSPECT-00979892 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#womansnation Red State Feminists feel that the new report, "A Woman's Nation," is a must-read for every woman in America. At the heart of the report is a collection of statistics and survey results that aim to shed light on the changing reality of women's roles in our country. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:18:13 -0700 RSSPECT-00974337 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#vbac Red State Feminists are appalled that a hospital in Arizona threatened a woman with a court order to undergo a C-section in the face of her determination to have her second VBAC! If you are not aware of what is happening in this country, you should know that now fully half of US hospitals refuse to do VBACS--vaginal birth after C-section--on the grounds that there is an elevated risk to mother and child, though that risk is less than 1%. And you may also not be aware that no OB-GYN will agree to do more than 4 C-sections, so once you've had that first one, your ability to have more than 4 births is taken away from you completely. And, of course, the US has the highest rate of C-section among OECD countries: over 30% C-section rate. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:33:57 -0700 RSSPECT-00969859